The Costume Institute’s foray into Black dandyism, curated by Monica L. Miller, may appear as a meaningful celebration of Black aesthetics, but I found its gaze ultimately shallow and flattened beneath the weight of Western validation and the white gaze. While the usual A-listers such as Rihanna, Doechii, Tom Ford, FKA Twigs, Tyla and many more strutted their stuff on the blue carpet, serving the best of what contemporary  fashion imagination could bring to life, what was missing was not fl